My Lords and Gentlemen, As I have previously informed you, it is my intention to write an explication of the Theory of Sleeplessness in a logical and scientifick manner. You will have noted too that no sooner do I embark on my Treatise than new examples of Wokery present themselves to distract me from my […]
My Lords and Gentlemen, I must digress again from my chosen path. While the causes and effects of the beliefs of those who embrace Wokery is to be the subject of my Treatise, I must draw to your particular notice one peculiar sect of the Proponents of Sleeplessness whose origins are distinct from their Wakeful […]
My Lords and Gentlemen, You will recall that in my last essay I recounted a joke told by some men of Upminster about the womenfolk of Essex. I had thought that I had done little more than to record the mores and disrespectful nature of the plebeian element of that countie. On the contrary, I have stirred […]
My Lords and Gentlemen, I have been silent over the past few weeks. With His Majestie on the advice of his Ministers’ proscribing the customary seasonal Festivities in a manner not seen since the days of Oliver Cromwell and with the Foul Pestilence abroad, my spirits have been most downcast. The quarantine has created a […]
My Lords and Gentlemen, I have again annoyed the proponents of Wokery. I am seemingly unable to put pen to paper without being accused of the Sin of Slumbering. You will recall that at the front of my last short essay, I cited a short passage from that most amusing and saucy author, to wit, Geoffrey […]
My Lords and Gentlemen, There is much trouble in the Court which I must first note here before commencing my Treatise. I have the highest regard for the military prowess of the Prince, George Augustus1Subsequently George II. Indeed, the Duke of Marlborough himself has written to me that at Oudenade he “distinguished himself extremely, charging at […]
My Lords and Gentlemen, I was asked by Lord H_____ at Wills’s yesterday afternoon why these short essays are headed with quotations from long dead authors, often in the Classical languages. I do so to ensure that no man may presume to imitate my erudition without understanding at least one sentence of the learned languages1It […]
My Lords and Gentlemen1The title to this essay is to be translated “Once you condemn him, a defendant must perforce accept your verdict, even if he was not the murderer or concerned in the crime. The law banishes him from his city, its temples, its games, and its sacrifices, the greatest and the most ancient of […]
My Lords and Gentlemen, The demands upon my time are such that the commencement of my Treatise has again been delayed. That my Treatise is to be published has already caused much grumbling amongst the disaffected adherents of the Cult of Wokery. So much so that a pamphlet is abroad in which an anonymous author […]